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<h1 class="heading1">Reviewing Your Hosting Package</h1>
<p class="bodytext">To review or select the hosting features available for your account (if your provider delegated the permission to manage the hosting options for your account):</p>
<ol class="procedurelistnumber"><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Setup</strong> on your Home page.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">View or change your hosting options:<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">IP Address</strong>. Your domain can be hosted on either exclusive IP address or shared IP address. Choose an address from your service provider's IP addresses pool.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Certificate</strong>. Shows the SSL certificate used by your site.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">SSL support</strong>. Secure Sockets Layer encryption is generally used for protecting transfer of sensitive data during online transactions on e-commerce Web sites that run on dedicated IP addresses. SSL certificates that participate in the encryption process are usually applied to a single domain name on a single IP address, therefore, each site that needs SSL protection must be hosted on a dedicated IP address. An exception to this is subdomains, which you can protect with a wildcard certificate. Installing an SSL certificate on a Web server that hosts several web sites with different domain names on a single IP address (shared or name-based hosting) is technically possible, however, it is not recommended: the encryption will be provided, but users will get warning messages on attempt to connect to the secure site. To allow SSL encryption for Web sites, select the <strong class="specialbold">SSL support</strong> check box.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content</strong>. By default, when users publish their sites through their FTP accounts, they need to upload the web content that should be accessible via secure connections to the <code class="monospace">httpsdocs</code> directory, and the content that should be accessible via plain HTTP, to the <code class="monospace">httpdocs</code> directory. For the convenience of  publishing all content through a single location – <code class="monospace">httpdocs</code> directory, select the <strong class="specialbold">Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content</strong> check box.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">FTP login</strong> and <strong class="specialbold">FTP password</strong>. Specify the user name and password that will be used for publishing the site to the server through FTP. Retype the password into the <strong class="specialbold">Confirm Password</strong> box.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Hard disk quota</strong>. Specify the amount of disk space in megabytes allocated to the web space for this site. This is the so-called hard quota that will not allow writing more files to the web space when the limit is reached. At attempt to write files, users will get the &quot;Out of disk space&quot; error. Hard quotas should be enabled in the server's operating system, so if you see the &quot;Hard disk quota is not supported&quot; notice to the right of the <strong class="specialbold">Hard disk quota</strong> field, but would like to use the hard quotas, contact your provider or the server administrator and ask to enable the hard quotas.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Shell access to server with FTP user's credentials</strong>. This allows you to upload securely web content to the server through a Secure Socket Shell connection, however, allowing shell access also poses a potential threat to the server security, so we recommend that you do not allow shell access. Leave the <strong class="specialbold">Forbidden</strong> option selected.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">FrontPage support</strong>. Microsoft FrontPage is a popular web site authoring tool. To enable users to publish and modify their sites through Microsoft FrontPage, select the <strong class="specialbold">FrontPage support </strong>and <strong class="specialbold">FrontPage over SSL support</strong> check boxes, set the <strong class="specialbold">FrontPage authoring </strong>option to <strong class="specialbold">allowed</strong>, and<strong class="specialbold"> </strong>specify the <strong class="specialbold">FrontPage Administrator's login </strong>and<strong class="specialbold"> password.</strong></li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Support for programming and scripting languages supported by your hosting environment</strong>. Specify which of the following  programming and scripting languages should be interpreted, executed or otherwise processed by the web server: Active Server Pages (ASP), Server Side Includes (SSI), PHP hypertext preprocessor (PHP), Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Fast Common Gateway Interface (FastCGI), Perl, Python, ColdFusion and Miva scripting required for running Miva e-commerce solutions.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Web statistics</strong>. To allow you to view the information on the number of people visited your site and the pages of the site they viewed, select the required program from <strong class="specialbold">Web statistics</strong> menu (AWStats is recommended) and select the <strong class="specialbold">accessible via password protected directory /plesk-stat/</strong> check box. This will install the statistics program, which will generate reports and place them into the password protected directory. You will then be able to access Web statistics at the URL: https://your-domain.com/plesk-stat/webstat using your FTP account login and password.<p class="listnote2"><strong class="buttons">Note:</strong> When you switch from one statistics program to another, all reports created by the previously used statistics program are deleted and new reports are created in accordance with the information read from log files kept on the server. This means that if you configured the system (at <strong class="specialbold">Log Manager &gt; Log Rotation</strong>) so as to keep log files only for the last month, then Web statistics will be available only for the last month.   </p>
</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Custom error documents</strong>. When visitors coming to your site request pages that the web server cannot find, the web server generates and displays a standard HTML page with an error message. If you wish to create your own error pages and use them on your web server, select the <strong class="specialbold">Custom error documents</strong> check box.</li></ul></li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong>.</li></ol><p class="bodytext"> </p>
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